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OSP will:
Find a time to meet and discuss your application and how we can help
Help you find grant opportunities - search our grants database at GrantForward.
Setup a Teams page to help coordinate your application and award
Prepare and review your budget
Acquire all institutional approvals on your behalf
Provide institutional documentation
Submit or approve your application
Review your application at your request
Help with anything you need as you prepare the application!
Once your grant is funded OSP will
Manage all financial aspects of your award. You will work with your school or department Administrative Assistant, budget manager, or grant manager to spend your award dollars through normal purchasing channels.
Provide you with budget updates that help you track expenses, meet project goals, and complete project reports.
Review, prepare and sign all grant related contracts and documents.
Important: Only OSP can sign grant related contracts and agreements (speaker contracts, quotations, vendor agreements, subaward agreements) on behalf of the university.
Give us a call if you are unsure to avoid invalidating or delaying the grant, contract, or agreement and placing yourself or others at financial risk.
Help you understand and follow all SPU and grant agency guidelines and requirements. If you have any policy questions related to your grant give us a call - we can help
Please let us know anytime you communicate with your grant agency - just cc osp@spu.edu. This includes reporting, budget revisions, extensions, billing, scope of work changes, etc.
OSP handles all grant related budget questions as part of the finance team.
Thank you for the work you do on behalf of SPU and our students. It is a blessing to support you on this journey.
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